Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…
A semiconductor device is one made of silicon or any number of other…
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Three batteries, each one with a different…
The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…
Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…
One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
A handy tool for reading resistor color code values
So far, we’ve explored tubes which are totally…
Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
What Is a XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…
The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…
What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…
Explain how the microphone in your amplifier works. How, exactly, does…
Because it takes energy to force charge to flow against the opposition…
This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline
It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
As we’ve seen, negative feedback is an incredibly useful…
A calculator for computing the impedance of an edge coupled stripline.
Explain how a moving-coil, or dynamic microphone works. Identify how…
It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…
The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Calculate the total resistance of resistors in parallel with ease!
PARTS AND MATERIALS 4001 quad NOR gate (Radio Shack catalog #…
